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For two decades, singer/saxophonist/songwriter Curtis Stigers has demonstrated that the lines between jazz, pop, soul, rock, blues, and even country are not as clearly defined as they may seem. Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, Stigers spent his school years playing drums in rock bands and studying clarinet and saxophone at school – two instruments that awakened his jazz sensibilities at an early age. During his teenage years, he sat in regularly with legendary jazz pianist Gene Harris, who held weekly jam sessions at a local club in Boise.
Curtis Stigers's self-titled 1991 debut album on Arista sold 1.5 million copies worldwide, thanks to several self-penned pop/soul hit singles. In addition to tours with Eric Clapton, Elton John and Bonnie Raitt, and several Tonight Show and Letterman appearances, duets with Al Green, Jules Shear, and Julia Fordham, Stigers recorded a track for the wildly successful soundtrack to the Whitney Houston film "The Bodyguard." Since 2001, Stigers has been recording with the Concord Jazz label, which in April 2014, will release "Hooray for Love" his 11th studio album (his 8th for Concort Jazz) of great America Songbook upbeat love songs. In a trajectory that began with pop/soul albums in the early '90s, the vocalist-saxophonist-songwriter has spent the past several years cementing his reputation as a formidable jazz singer – one who recognizes the value of the story within the song, and the countless ways in which that story can be told.
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Les baked beans sont des haricots blancs cuits dans une sauce tomate aromatisée. Traditionnellement, ils sont cuisinés au four, mais ils sont souvent mijotés dans une casserole, en dépit du nom. C'est un plat typique du petit déjeuner anglais.

Ils se mangent souvent avec du pain de mie, frit ou grillé (baked beans on toast, ou simplement beans on toast). Les Britanniques les mangent aussi avec des pommes de terre au four, du bacon ou des saucisses.

Variations régionales

Il y a des différences substantielles entre les baked beans vendus par Heinz au Royaume-Uni et le même produit commercialisé aux États-Unis (Haricots végétariens Premium Qualité de Heinz). Les baked beans des États-Unis contiennent du sucre brun, contrairement aux baked beans britanniques. Le produit commercialisé aux États-Unis contient un total de  de sucre par boîte, contre  pour la version britannique (soit 140 contre ). Les haricots des États-Unis ont une texture plus molle et une couleur plus foncée que leur contrepartie britannique.

Aux États-Unis, Bush's est le principal producteur de baked beans, et les décline en plusieurs saveurs. La plupart de ces produits ont une sauce très douce au goût peu prononcé.

En Nouvelle-Angleterre, les baked beans sont adoucis avec du sirop d'érable, et sont traditionnellement mis à cuire avec du porc, dans un four de brique, pendant un jour complet. Une marque populaire et largement diffusée en Nouvelle-Angleterre est B&M's Original Baked Beans.

En Nouvelle-Zélande, les cafés locaux servent les baked beans dans une sauce tomate fraichement préparée, accompagnés de jarret de jambon fumé, d'oignon, d'ail et d'épices. Là-bas, la recette des baked beans est considérée comme une icône culturelle pour les habitants locaux.

Dans les États du Sud, le long de la côte ouest des États-Unis, les baked beans ont un goût plus fort, dû à l'addition de moutarde. On y ajoute également couramment du bœuf haché ou du lard. Leur saveur rappelle alors celle des cowboy beans, un plat populaire. Beaucoup de plats peu communs sont faits à partir de baked beans, comme le cold bean sandwich, constitué de tranches de pain, servies avec des haricots et du fromage fondu.

Commercialisation
En Angleterre, la marque commerciale de baked beans la plus célèbre est Heinz, et le produit s'appelle Baked Beanz. Ce nom fait référence au slogan Beanz Meanz Heinz, créé dans les années 1960, lors d'une campagne de publicité particulièrement marquante.

Ces préparations sont faites à partir de flageolets en sauce. Au Royaume-Uni, la sauce la plus utilisée est la sauce tomate. Un plat assez proche est le pork and beans (haricots cuisinés avec du porc).

Les baked beans sont très populaires parce qu'on peut les acheter et les cuisiner à peu de frais. Au Royaume-Uni, par exemple, on peut acheter en supermarché une boîte de baked beans de la marque du distributeur pour moins de  (environ ), même si quelques marques de produits biologiques de qualité peuvent la facturer jusqu'à  (environ ).

Les haricots cuits au four sont en Angleterre un exemple classique de produit d'appel. La première raison est qu'ils sont considérés par les marketeurs comme repères des consommateurs pour juger si le supermarché est bon marché, et la seconde est simplement pour amplifier les ventes des produits complémentaires. Les baked beans ont pris une place comme accompagnement d'autres aliments, tels que la chair à saucisse, le bacon, ou en garnitures pour pizza.

Histoire
Les baked beans ne sont pas un plat traditionnel britannique ; ils ont été importés des États-Unis à la fin du , sous la forme d'un produit industriel, et vendues chez Fortnum & Mason, à Londres.

Versions du plat

Les cuisines traditionnelles de nombreuses régions possèdent leur recette typique à base de haricots, comme :
 les Boston baked beans ;
 les baked beans à la mode de Nouvelle-Angleterre ;
 les baked beans on toast (ou simplement beans on toast), servis sur du pain de mie froid ou grillé. La cuisine britannique les désigne en tant que favoris de tea time, et les baked beans sont également un plat typique du petit déjeuner anglais ;
 les bean-hole beans, originaires du nord de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, et du Québec, cuits au feu, dans un puits creusé dans la terre, pendant une durée allant jusqu'à deux jours ;
 le cassoulet ;
 la fassolia ;
 la feijoada ;
 les fèves au lard du Québec, préparées avec du sirop d'érable ou de la mélasse ;
 les franks & beans, une recette où des hot-dogs sont coupés et mis à cuire dans la même sauce que les baked beans. Également désignés sous le nom de Beanee Weenee, du nom de la marque sous laquelle ils sont commercialisés par la société Van Camp ;
 le Guernsey Bean Jar ;
 les haricots à la sauce barbecue constituent un accompagnement traditionnel du barbecue aux États-Unis ;
 les Jersey bean crock ;
 le market loubia, plat originaire du Maghreb ;
 en Pologne, on les prépare traditionnellement avec du lard de porc ou de la saucisse, assaisonnés avec de la marjolaine. Ils sont connus sous le nom fasolka po bretońsku (haricots blancs à la bretonne).

Références

Cuisine anglaise
Cuisine polonaise
Spécialité à base de haricots
Spécialité à base de pain grillé

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New York City Jury Finds El Chapo Guilty on All 10 Counts
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UNITED STATES: Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as El Chapo, was found guilty on all 10 counts yesterday after a cinematic trial held over nearly three months in a Federal District Court in Brooklyn. The jury deliberated for over a week as they considered a staggering amount of evidence in the case against Guzmán, including over 50 witness testimonies that shed light on the cartel's operations. The infamous crime lord faces life in prison, with a sentencing hearing scheduled for June 25. Defense lawyers expressed plans to appeal the ruling.
Guzmán's illicit business network, the Sinaloa cartel, continues to move massive amounts of drugs and throw political weight around the world, despite the conviction. Long-time cartel leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is believed to be in charge along with Guzmán's sons. The cartel is bringing in huge profits from fentanyl-laced heroin, which has resulted in widespread overdose deaths. That and the rise of the Jalisco New Generation cartel are likely greater challenges than yesterday's verdict.
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MEXICO: Scientific researchers are fighting an increasingly hostile environment from cartel-related violence. The U.S.-Mexico Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Sierra Negra has recently scaled back to "bare minimum operations" because of conflicts over illegal oil mining, according to LMT Director David Hughes. International research collaborations, ecological monitoring and other initiatives are similarly impeded by drug trafficking and cartel conflict. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently stated that the 11-year-long "war on drugs" is over, with the hope that a new strategy would be more effective.
UNITED STATES: A proposed detention facility for unaccompanied minors in El Paso, Texas, is located near former Superfund sites and may pose a health risk to migrant children, according to the environmental group Earthjustice. Last June, former Defense Secretary James Mattis announced plans to house migrants at Goodfellow Air Base, but the Department of Health and Human Services said it is "not under active consideration at this time." The Trump administration is facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from eight immigrant families who say its separation and detention policies have left them with psychological trauma.
HAITI: At least 78 prisoners escaped the civil jail of Aquin, a city located in the South of Haiti. National Police Inspector Ralph Stanley Brice said authorities were distracted by nearby protests when the group refused to return to their cells. Since last week, demonstrators have been objecting to the government's alleged misuse of development funds from Venezuela. Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse is implicated in the corruption, according to a court report.
JAMAICA: Former councilor Marjorie "Madge" Morris of the People's National Party of Jamaica (PNP) was found dead yesterday. She was fatally shot in her home over the weekend, becoming the second PNP member to be killed in less than two weeks. An official statement from the party said that Morris' death has "compounded the dampened spirit and sorrow" among its members.
NICARAGUA: Higher payroll taxes and 30- to 40-percent cuts to pension payments became official this month. Economists and businesses warn the rise in payroll taxes could deepen the country's recession and drive up unemployment. The social security package was approved in January by a legislature dominated by Ortega's allies and took effect February 1. Nicaragua's wave of political unrest and repression originally stemmed from a similar plan announced last spring.
VENEZUELA: Yesterday, self-declared interim President Juan Guaidó set February 23 as the date when caravans will carry medicine and food into Venezuela. Guaidó is mobilizing his supporters to demand that security forces allow the warehoused goods into the country from Colombia. President Nicolás Maduro has refused the aid, and the aid deadline could be a flashpoint. Venezuela's foreign minister under Maduro said at a news conference that the country is facing not a humanitarian crisis, but an "international assault by the United States." Jorge Arreaza is seeking cooperation from the United Nations.
ECUADOR: The country's largest gold resource might be under the control of organized crime. Investigative journalists at Insight Crime report that thousands of miners from Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and Venezuela are exploiting a deposit located in the northern province of Imbabura. Every month, the mining, apparently commanded by armed dissident and mafia groups, extracts nearly half a million dollars in illegal profits. Ecuadorian authorities calculate that foreign investment in gold mining is valued at $1 billion.
BRAZIL: The Brazilian Supreme Court suspended two criminal proceedings against recently elected President Jair Bolsonaro. Justice Luiz Fux put a hold on two charges for slander and incitation from 2014, when Bolsonaro told congresswoman Maria do Rosário that she "did not deserve" to be raped because she "was too ugly." In the past, Bolsonaro was charged with inciting hatred, but the charges were later dropped.
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MOSCOW, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- The China-Russia joint construction of the "Silk Road on Ice" (SRI) will facilitate the pairing of their strategic initiatives and promote comprehensive cooperation of the two countries in the Arctic area, a Russian expert told Xinhua in a recent interview.
"The initiative to create the Eurasian Economic Partnership and to conjugate it with the Belt and Road Initiative is becoming a global initiative to change the existing world order radically," said Vladimir Remyga, chairman of the Coordination Council for Cooperation with Business Associations of Asia of the International Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ICIE).
In December 2015, in his annual state of the union address to the Russian Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin announced the idea of a greater Eurasian partnership, which is based on the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) officially established in January 2015.
The Russia-led EEU, which groups Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, is an economic bloc aiming to optimize the flow of goods and services among its members.
During a visit to Moscow in May 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping signed an agreement with Putin on aligning the Belt and Road Initiative with the EEU.
Noting that Russia is an important partner in the construction of the Belt and Road, Xi in July urged the two countries to carry out the Northern Sea Route cooperation so as to realize an "Ice Silk Road."
The SRI refers to a shortcut between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans through the Arctic. It is widely seen as the third arch of the Belt and Road Initiative proposed by China, which is originally composed of one route spanning westward from China to Europe, and the other extending from the country's eastern coastline down to the Indian Ocean.
As leading players in pushing forward the global initiative, Russia and China have advanced from general agreements to practical implementation, including a joint feasibility study of the Eurasian Economic Partnership Agreement expected to be ready by the end of 2017, Remyga said.
"During the meeting of the heads of governments of Russia and China in early November, joint construction of the SRI was actively discussed as an important part of the formation of the Great Eurasian Partnership and the Belt and Road Initiative," Remyga said.
According to Remyga, the discussion on the joint construction of the SRI was given a significant impetus by the adoption of Russia's new program for the development of the Arctic zone until 2025, with a budget financing of over 16 billion rubles (274 million U.S. dollars).
"Cooperation with China is largely considered as an important driver for the implementation of this program," he said.8 Within this context, joint development of oil and gas fields as well as the construction of various types of infrastructure facilities like railways and ports are being explored by the two countries, the expert said.
"The core cooperation area is the development of the infrastructure of the Northern Sea Route and the establishment of cargo transportation through it, in order to transform the route into a global competitive transport artery," Remyga said.
The Northern Sea Route, a strategic shipping passage between Asia and Europe that runs along Russia's Arctic coast, is seen as a fundamental part of the SRI.
It is estimated that if fully opened, the Arctic route will cut the annual costs of international maritime trade by 53.3-127.4 billion dollars by 2020.
Despite progress in cooperation, there are problems in exploiting the Northern Sea Route and implementing relevant infrastructure projects, including a significant shortage of ice-class cargo ships, Remyga said.
"Construction of the new powerful nuclear icebreakers has begun in Russia. The first of the three ships, the icebreaker Arktika, will be launched soon, to be followed by Siberia in 2019 and Ural in 2020. But the construction of ice-class cargo ships has not yet begun," he said.
According to Remyga, China and Russia are currently conducting negotiations on setting up a joint-venture company for the construction of ice-class cargo vessels as well as the upgrade of ports and overall navigation infrastructure.


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Caroline Stanbury is an English reality television personality known for co-starring on Ladies of London. She started her career in public relations and later on worked as a fashion stylist. In 2013, Stanbury also started her own bridal boutique cried The Wedding Shop.
A reality TV personality has been married to Cem Habib since 2004. They have three children.
Caroline Stanbury was born on April 28, 1976, London, United Kingdom. She is the daughter of Anthony Stanbury and Elizabeth Stanbury. She has two brothers Alexander George Basil Stanbury and Edward Samuel Joseph Stanbury and a sister Victoria Elizabeth Sophie Stanbury.
Stanbury spent most of her childhood growing up in Dorset along with his family. And is said to have been attracted by the fashion world since she was little. Her father is a former Jaeger managing director while her mother is in the business of cashmere knitwear. Born into Vestey dynasty, she was no foreigner to London's high society including the royals, celebrities and so on.
Stanbury recalls her childhood as very different from where she was surrounded by uniformed nannies all the time and she even had to wash her hands before she touched her brothers and sisters.
Caroline Stanbury went to a prestigious school in Gloucestershire named Westonbirt boarding school. However, she didn't get into any universities for further study.
Thus, after her schooling, Caroline Stanbury took up a role of public relations professional where she gained quite a reputation for herself working for London's most elite group. Then in 2008, her entrepreneurial journey began with the establishment of "The Gift Library of Caroline Stanbury", online luxury goods selling company either for personal or gifting purposes.
Stanbury venture became a success among the targeted group of customers as the store was cleaned up very quickly. The result of such success was the opening of three more branches within a mere five years time interval where the number of staffs she leads also reached more than fifty.
In November of 2013, Stanbury put her hands into the wedding industry by acquiring "The Wedding Shop" an independent wedding list service of United Kingdom.
Presently, Stanbury is involved in a reality television show Ladies of London produced by Bravo which first aired in June 2014. Her company "The Gift Library of Caroline Stanbury" was sold to Amara, a competitor and the name is to be changed to amara.com. Wikipedia also quotes Caroline as the main character of the show.
In 2013, Stanbury opened her own bridal boutique cried The Wedding Shop in London. She has also opened branches to the franchise in Selfridges on Oxford Street, an in Brown Thomas in Dublin, Ireland.
Caroline's total net worth for the years 2013 and 2014 reported to be approximately $30 million for each year, and while looking at her earnings at present, it is expected to be more or less the same even for the year 2015.
One of the consistent brand used by Caroline Stanbury would be "Herman Birkin" bags that despite being very costly is piled up as a collection at her home. She wore an elegant wedding dress featuring a high collar and three-quarter length sleeves worth £200,000 ($261,400.40) in her marriage ceremony.
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Caroline Stanbury is happily married to Turkish Cem Habib in 2004 after a year-long relationship who is a financier by profession. After she got bored of continuously living in London and also when it became a bit difficult for her to bring in a work-family life balance she moved out of Holland Park, London to Wentworth Estate, Virginia Water with her husband and three kids named Yasmine Habib, Zack Habib, and Aaron Habib.
Stanbury feels peace moving to a 12,500 square foot mansion where a housekeeper and a team of nannies look after the house and the children respectively.
In her leisure time, Stanbury prefers massages and also confesses to being addicted to reality TV. She was in a relationship for the first time at the age of 18 and at that time she got her obsession for Hermes Birkin bags when her boyfriend presented her with it.
Stanbury was also previously in a relationship with Hugh Grant, Prince Andrew (the Duke of York), footballer Ryan Giggs and so on. Stonecliffe Rock Limited, a creditor, is said to call in the debt after being infuriated by a lot of 'selfies' of Stanbury at parties.
Stanbury hated her boarding school as she felt silly about the fact that she was even taught to get in and out of Porsche gracefully. She dedicates the credit for her success to her efforts and prayers and feels proud to be born into the Vestey dynasty.
Stanbury has also mega fan following on her Instagram account with more than 425K followers.
Caroline Stanbury stands at the height of 5ft 5 inch and her weight is 53kg. She has a body measurement of 32-24-32. She has a brown colored eye and blonde hair color.


Most of the new and under-utilized vaccines have never been used in countries of the SEA Region in large population groups e.g: seasonal flu vaccine and Hib vaccine as monovalent vaccine and/or delivered along with DTP and HepB as a single combination vaccine. Serious Adverse Events Following Immunization are very rare. Vaccines are given to healthy children below five years of age, which is a very vulnerable age group in developing countries. Other coincidental cause of death can be easily miss-interpreted as vaccine reactions without proper investigation and causality analysis procedures. It is therefore critical for national regulatory authority (NRA) and national immunization programme (NIP) managers to monitor AEFI and establish a vaccine safety surveillance system within their countries. Because of the high level of sensitivity involved in case of serious AEFI it is also very important that all national immunization programmes establish a national AEFI committee to conduct analysis and to scientifically determine the causality of the event with the vaccine. This national AEFI committee will also have the responsibility to advise the Ministry of Health and the national immunization programme on activities to improve the vaccine safety surveillance system.


Mission Hills and Mission Park are separate housing developments with many similar characteristics. Both are located off of 168th Street, Mission Hills to the east and Mission Park to the west with their northern boundaries along Q Street. Two stories and ranches, many with three car garages, are the predominant styles, and construction starts range from the early 1990's to today. Prices vary from $230,000 to $360,000 and reflect the home's style, age, size and amenities.


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Q: Ignoring RouteValues with MvcSitemapprovider MVC 5 Unity I have an MVC 5 application with Unity DI using the MvcSiteMapProvider package from NuGet. I'm trying to use the ignore MvcSiteMapProvider_AttributesToIgnore appSetting in my web.config file like the following
<add key="MvcSiteMapProvider_AttributesToIgnore" value="type" />

But when my sitemap is displayed, the urls have the ignored value as the querystring.
There is a section in the MvcSiteMapProvider documentation that reads

If using an external DI container, this setting can be found on the constructor of the ReservedAttributeNameProvider in a parameter named "attributesToIgnore", which is type IEnumerable

I'm using Unity so I wonder if I need to add this to my container somehow, but I don't know how.
Any ideas on how to ignore route values?

A: You just need to add the settings to the ReservedAttributeNameProvider as described in the documentation:
// Prepare for the sitemap node providers
this.Container.RegisterType<IXmlSource, FileXmlSource>("file1XmlSource", new InjectionConstructor(absoluteFileName));
this.Container.RegisterType<IReservedAttributeNameProvider, ReservedAttributeNameProvider>(
    // Add the attributes to ignore here
    new InjectionConstructor(new string[] { "type", "value2" }));

Tip: You can always find out what dependencies a class has by temporarily newing up the class and looking at the parameters with Intellisense.
new ReservedAttributeNameProvider(

// Type the above in Visual Studio and you will see the constructor parameters
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Aaron Rodgers was carted to the locker room before halftime Dec. 28 against the Lions after injuring his left calf. But after missing one drive in the second half, Rodgers was back on the field.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — As the Green Bay Packers practiced Friday, there was a notable absence in the middle of the field as the quarterbacks warmed up. Matt Flynn was there, as was Scott Tolzien. But there was no sign of Aaron Rodgers.
With nine days before the Packers' divisional-round game, not having Rodgers on the field could be a common occurrence for Green Bay's next few practices as he recovers from an injured left calf.
"I really don't see him getting on the practice field until Thursday, probably at the earliest," said head coach Mike McCarthy, projecting six days ahead.
Rodgers initially suffered the injury Week 16 in Tampa Bay. In the Packers' regular-season finale, Rodgers injured a different spot on the same calf. Already hobbled, Rodgers fell to the ground untouched Week 17 as he threw a touchdown pass to Randall Cobb near the goal line. Rodgers needed assistance from trainers to get to the sideline and was then carted to the locker room.
"The calf is slowly progressing," Rodgers said at his locker. "I wasn't out there today. But yeah, we're right where we need to be in getting ready to hopefully get on the field next week."
With the missed practice time, Rodgers isn't worried about losing rhythm with the offense. There are other issues that could come about as a result of it, though.
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"It's just about working on checks and kind of going through the plan," Rodgers said. "That's why you need to practice."
Rodgers' mobility could be limited in the game Jan. 11, but he'll benefit greatly from the first-round bye Green Bay is enjoying. The possibility of having that week off was part of Rodgers' motivation for returning in the second half against Detroit.
At the time Rodgers exited late in the second quarter, the Packers were winning, 14-0. When he returned in the third quarter, the Lions had come back to tie the game. Rodgers went on to complete 11 of 13 second-half passes for 129 yards as Green Bay won the game — and in the process won the NFC North for the fourth consecutive year.
But, even with the team being off Tuesday through Thursday, it wasn't enough time for Rodgers to recover from his injury.
"I think the biggest thing is for him to rep the things that he feels that he may need another rep on," McCarthy said. "There won't be a bunch of new ideas or things that he hasn't seen or things he doesn't have the reps with his teammates with. So I'm not really concerned."
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The Humanities as Sugar Daddy
So, the Governor of Florida set up a Task Force on higher education, and they decided that humanities majors should pay more than science majors for a college education. The thinking is that Florida wants more technology grads, and fewer humanities grads, and can get them by making humanities degrees more expensive so that students opt for science, math, and technology instead. They call this approach "market based," but its ignorance of basic economic realities is startling.
One of the hard truths of higher education is that some classes run at a profit and some run at a loss, and that the less-expensive, more-profitable classes are used to underwrite courses that are just as educationally necessary but cost more to run. The larger classes help pay for the smaller ones, the introductory classes help pay for the advanced ones, and the classes in "soft" subjects like English, history, or anthropology help pay for classes in "hard" disciplines like science and engineering.
This seems counter-intuitive to some non-academics who, having internalized the idea that science is where the money is, presume that offering science classes is also more profitable than offering classes on Latin poetry or sociological methods. But it is partly because STEM graduates make more money on average than humanities graduates that teaching STEM courses is more expensive: engineering professors make higher salaries than classics professors. Laboratory science (including computer science, certainly) also requires expensive labs and equipment, while most humanities courses require only a textbook (whose price is borne by the student, not the college). It's true that STEM fields bring in more external grant money, but that grant money largely gets eaten up by the lab facilities you have to build in order to apply for the grants.
The question "how can the humanities pay for themselves?" ignores the fact that the humanities not only pay for themselves but underwrite the sciences too. But ignoring that fact does not make it go away. And if Florida did manage to move a large number of its students out of profit-turning humanities classes into break-even-or-less science classes, it's likely that many public university budgets in Florida will go up in flames pose significant challenges.
Of course, that presumes that they can move students into their math and science classes at all. The "market-based" part of the solution ignores the fact that the Florida schools are actually part of a market. They compete for students with a large number of other schools. Being in a market means that you don't get to set prices unilaterally.
The English majors will simply go somewhere else. This is how markets work. Making a humanities degree pricier won't discourage people from pursuing that degree. It will only encourage them to buy it from your competitors instead of you. If it's too expensive to major in history at the University of Florida, students who want to major in history will either go to a private university or leave the state.
What Florida just decided to do is the equivalent to saying, "I'm tired of customers buying hamburgers instead of lobster. I'm going to make hamburgers twice as expensive as lobster." If you did that, you wouldn't sell more lobster. You'd just lose customers. They would go across the street to a restaurant where lobster was the same price, and burgers much cheaper. On the other hand, the few customers you did have would order nothing but the lobster, which you have to buy at expensive wholesale prices, instead of the ground beef that wholesales for so much less. And your restaurant will go broke pretty quickly, especially if you were already using the profits on all those hamburgers to subsidize the lobster side of the business.
But the Florida idea is ultimately just a newer version of something that's been happening in American universities for decades, as administrators demand a higher and higher profit margin from humanities classes in order to fund other priorities. For at least twenty-five years colleges have been increasing those profits by cutting humanities budgets, trying to spend less and less on those classes while keeping the revenue those courses bring in steady and growing. They shrink the number of full-time faculty in those fields, shift more and more teaching to ill-paid part-timers, and when push comes to shove cut the few subjects in the humanities, such as foreign-language instruction, that require higher overhead. Cutting costs AND upping prices is just an intensification of the normal strategy, busting the piggy bank open at two different ends.
Universities don't cut humanities budgets because the humanities are unprofitable. They cut humanities budgets because humanities are profitable, and schools are trying to squeeze more and more profit out of them. It's one of the few places to make money. And schools are always hungry for more.
The Death of the Dog Whistle
There's been a lot of post-election hand-wringing about how the Republicans can "reach out" to minority voters. If they can't win just by energizing their shrinking base of white people, what's next? Immigration reform? Marco Rubio? What's it going to take?
At the same time, you have former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan blaming the Romney loss on voters from "urban areas." Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Maybe I'm overthinking this, but if one chunk of your party is talking about reaching out to minority voters, and another chunk is publicly talking about minority voters in code, you are on the fast track to nowhere. And if your national candidates are using racial euphemisms in public, don't act surprised when people who aren't white don't want to vote for you.
Filing petitions talking about secession from the Union doesn't help, either. Um, Party of Lincoln? Hello?
The Republicans have made their political living for a generation on the racial dog-whistle, the coded appeal that comes across loud and clear to white racists but not to whites who don't like to think of themselves as racist. Lee Atwater famously explains the procedure:
You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract. Now, you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."
Couldn't be clearer. But here's the problem for the Atwaters of the world now that more than a quarter of the electorate isn't white:
Racists aren't the only people who can hear the dog whistle. Minorities hear it clear as a bell.
When people say that people who aren't racists don't hear the dog whistle, they mean other white people can't hear it. And that conflation of "other white people" as "people" is part of the problem.
This is where a term like "white privilege" becomes useful. A white person who isn't actively hostile to other races, but has the luxury of not noticing racist hostility is enjoying white privilege in a pretty clear way. Does that make them racist? No. But giving yourself permission to remain clueless does pretty clearly help maintain the problem. And when white people bend over backwards to avoid offending anybody by calling an unrepentant dog-whistler a racist, that's white privilege in a pretty toxic form.
The Atwaterite Republican strategy is to say things that get the racist elements in their base worked up but that other whites will give them a pass on. (And, if anyone tries to call them on their BS, they take elaborate umbrage on cable news, and accuse their critics of "playing the race card." Obviously, white people who don't notice the dog whistle think "playing the race card" is a terrible, terrible thing.)
But getting away with your B.S. on cable TV isn't enough when we're talking about an electorate that's 25%-30% non-white. They won't give people a pass. They know a dog whistle when they hear it. They can't afford not to.
Time to go back to the drawing board, fellas. How about "Party of Lincoln?" It's worked before.
Excusing Petraeus
David Petraeus's downfall at the CIA, resigning after his marital infidelity was exposed, has gotten the kind of press coverage generally reserved for winning the Nobel Prize or becoming the first man on Mars. Story after story about his resignation rhapsodizes about the greatness of Petraeus, his military brilliance, his reputation for "probity and integrity." He is hailed as the model of a modern general, without a whiff of Gilbert & Sullivan irony in that phrase. Some people even single out the resignation itself as a sign of Petraeus's lofty sense of honor, as if why he was resigning had nothing to do with it. Of course, some of this is the standard journalistic fall-from-glory narrative, which needs to establish how high the subject was riding to demonstrate how far he's fallen. But it's peculiarly intense. Petraeus has always gotten idolatrous treatment from the media, and his resignation has become another opportunity to write the man valentines and give him lingering tongue-baths on the front page. What on earth did he need a mistress for?
Meanwhile, his extra-curricular lover gets blamed for seducing him. She "got his hooks" into him. He had a lapse in judgement, or simply "stumbled" in an unaccustomed situation. Virtually everyone agrees that Petraeus was weak and unable to resist, although everyone also agrees that they have no idea how this affair started. That no one knows any facts about whose idea the affair was or who started it is irrelevant, because this isn't about facts. An illicit relationship between a powerful man and less powerful woman is always treated as something that happens to the man and that the woman does.
Paula Broadwell has been hit with the two basic attacks used against every woman in her situation. 1) She is a crazed hussy. 2) It was her idea, and there was no way he could resist her. Never mind that these two lines of attack, which are almost always used in combination, tend to cancel each other out. (Shouldn't crazed hussies be easier to resist? Shouldn't any mature adult find lunatics much easier to turn down?) And while Broadwell has done legitimately reckless and foolish things, like sending the enraged e-mails that started the original investigation, the "crazed hussy" excuse only makes Petraeus's behavior worse. It demonstrates his lack of judgment. That he risked his career on a secret affair with an unreliable and ultimately untrustworthy partner is a sign of his own unreliable decision-making. So please, don't tell me any more about how smart he is. And the "couldn't resist her" excuse is a transparent falsehood. The affair could never have happened if David Petraeus did not want it to. The more powerful person can always resist the less powerful one, simply by using his power. It was not possible for Paula Broadwell to make any advances that David Petraeus did not allow her to make. There was nothing Broadwell could do unless Petraeus decided that she could do it.
If David Petraeus felt that Broadwell was getting too close to him, or that he was having trouble managing his sexual attraction to her, he could simply have closed off her access to him. It's that simple. When women get blamed for seducing powerful men, remember that the powerful man has to deliberately let that woman into a room with him in the first place. Monica Lewinsky and Rielle Hunter could not have gotten near Bill Clinton or John Edwards except that Clinton and Edwards deliberately decided to give those women access that almost everyone else was denied. This even holds true for men who aren't actually powerful, or who only have a little power inside their workplace. Being a college professor does not confer any power or influence. But over the years I've had two students make inappropriate romantic overtures toward me. Neither of those students has ever seen me one-on-one again. One has not been in the same room with me. And it was very easy for me to manage that. It is vastly easier for someone like Petraeus or Edwards or Clinton, surrounded by a constant press of followers and admirers jockeying for place near the great man, to let some obscure young woman (who, truthfully, doesn't have much reason to be there) get crowded out of his entourage. Petraeus didn't need an excuse to get rid of Broadwell or anybody else. Paula Broadwell was only around because Petraeus wanted her around. Anybody he stopped wanting around, anyone Petraeus did not actively invite into his presence, would simply be gone.
Why did he do it, reporters keep asking? Why did he have the hubris to think he could get away with it? But hubris is the point of such a relationship. It's obvious that Broadwell downright worships Petraeus, and her uncritical adoration has to be a strong part of her appeal. Petraeus got to have an affair with a person who saw none of his flaws and more of his virtues then he had, and he got to see himself through her eyes. It is the intoxicating pleasure of having a lover who has mistaken you for someone else, and indulges you in the same mistake. (My inappropriate students were clearly not attracted to the actual me, whom they do not really know, but to some English-professor fantasy that they had constructed around me. My spouse, on the other hand, not only sees my feet of clay but has to remind me twice a week about the clayey footprints I've left on the rug. That is just one of the many reasons I prefer her.) The great appeal of the younger mistress is not sex but vanity; they allow their older, more powerful lover to believe in an idealized fantasy version of himself. It isn't so much that hubris leads powerful men to chase younger women for sex. It's that such men have sex with younger women in order to get more and more hubris.
But Petraeus got more than the gratification of his vanity. He got payment for his favors: a doting, hero-worshiping quid pro quo of a biography. David Petraeus values publicity, and has long used it to advance his career. Sometimes he has even used publicity in an attempt to sway national policy in ways that he thought would benefit his career. And that is where the real moral rot lies here. I am not convinced that Petraeus's illicit sex life was necessarily a scandal in itself, or any threat to national security. I think the FBI investigation may be a legitimate scandal, not because the Intelligence Committees were not briefed but because other Congressmen were, and because no clear reason has been given for investigating anything. (If Broadwell is not being charged for sending the e-mail which began the investigation, why did the investigation begin at all?) But there is a real scandal here, and that scandal is the media itself.
Broadwell is spectacularly unethical as a journalist. There is no honesty in publishing a book about your lover without admitting he sleeps with you. No book published under those circumstances could be truthful. But Broadwell is the only the most glaringly literal example of the way the press has allowed Petraeus to play them. Broadwell's access to Petraeus's bed is not the problem with access journalism. The scandal is that so many other journalists have been willing to pay so much to Petraeus, and to others like him, in exchange for access to him. Granting journalists the privilege of covering him has bought Petraeus the right to control how he is covered. The result is propaganda that lionizes a man at the expense of the telling the truth about vital national concerns. Journalists give Petraeus credit for winning two wars that the United States has not won. That is exceptional and unhealthy. The fawning tone in news stories about Petraeus's resignation is not coverage of the scandal. It is a continuation of the scandal.
Let me spell it out: David Petraeus is a whore. He performed sexual favors in exchange for flattering media coverage. And Paula Broadwell was his john. She repaid Petraeus's sexual attentions and his protestations of love with glowing publicity. (Imagine Petraeus as an actress and Broadwell as a theater critic and the nature of their transaction becomes clear.) That Broadwell fell in love with her prostitute and lost herself in the follies of jealousy only makes her a sadder figure. The rest of the media, with whom David never actually went all the way but whom he has spent years intriguing and rebuffing and encouraging as it suited his purpose, are still willing to cover him any way he likes, just for the chance to get closer to him. David Petraeus may have fallen from grace for a moment, but the press still lusts after him and still woos him. They're just waiting for him to give them a chance.
Vote, Ohio!
If you're voting in Ohio, here's what you need to know:
1. Where should I go to vote?
If you're unsure where your polling place is, go here or here to look it up.
2. What ID should I bring?
The forms of identification that may be used by a voter who appears at a polling place to vote on an Election Day include:
A current and valid photo identification card issued by the State of Ohio or the United States government; or
A military identification ("military ID"); or
An original or copy of a current utility bill; or
An original or copy of a current bank statement; or
An original or copy of a current government check; or
An original or copy of a current paycheck; or
An original or copy of a current other government document, other than a voter registration acknowledgement notification mailed by the board of elections, that shows the voter's name and current address.
For Voter I.D. purposes "current" means the document was issued on a date within one year immediately preceding the date of the election at which the voter seeks to vote, or has on it an expiration date after November 6, 2012.
If your ID has expired AND it is more than a year old, then you need a different ID.
3) What if I don't have that kind of ID?
Voters who do not provide one of these documents at the precinct will still be able to vote using a provisional ballot. Voters who do not have any of the above forms of identification, including a Social Security number, will still be able to vote by signing an affirmation statement swearing to the voter's identity under penalty of election falsification and by casting a provisional ballot.
4) What if my license has my old address on it?
A voter presenting an Ohio driver's license that shows the voter's former address is permitted to cast a regular ballot so long as the voter's current residential address is printed in the official poll list of registered voters for that precinct.
5) What happens if I get a provisional ballot?
Try not to get a provisional ballot if you can help it. If you do get one, you may be asked to fill in the ID information on the ballot that you used. There is a court fight about this, but to be on the safe side make sure to do it yourself.
You have to fill in, carefully, the section on the ballot about the kind of ID you used. Make sure to fill this in carefully. Ask the poll workers for help if you're confused. (They're definitely allowed to help you, even if they're not allowed to fill it in.) Ask the poll workers if you've done it right before you hand in the ballot.
6) What if the line is too long, or the polls close before I get to vote vote?
You must be allowed to vote if you got in line before the polls close at 7:30 Tuesday night. If you get in line before the polls close but don't get to vote before 7:30 STAY IN LINE until they let you vote.
Voting is your right as an American, and it wasn't the people manning the tables at your polling place who gave it to you. They can't take it away from you either. Don't leave until you vote.
7) What if I have trouble voting?
Call the Ohio Voter Hotline: 1-855-VOTE-199


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Hundreds gather to say last goodbye to Waco's African American icon Lester Gibson
Published: Jun. 26, 2022 at 10:31 AM CDT
WACO, Texas (KWTX) - There was a rejoicing for the hundreds of people who gathered Saturday to celebrate the life of Waco's most influential figure in the African American community.
Lester Gibson, the first African American to be elected as a McLennan County commissioner died June 17. His funeral took place inside the Extraco Events Center.
"I have finished my course. I have kept the faith," said Minister Judy Ann Hatter, reading a bible passage.
And those who showed up to speak took the chance to give praise to Gibson for his work in the community.
"He didn't just walk the trail," said Lee Ann Edwards, "he blazed it."
After his election to the commissioners court, he held on to the seat for nearly 30 years, making him the longest-service commissioner in the county.
On top of that, he also edited and published two community newspapers and received recognition from organizations like the local chapter of the NAACP.
Those were just a few of his many accolades.
"You are, without a doubt our refuge," said Reverend Lawyer Neal. "You are our refuge and strength."
Because he was such a towering figure for the people of Waco, he was even being recognized after his death by Waco Mayor Dillon Meek.
"As mayor of the City of Waco, do hereby proclaim June 25, 2022 as Commissioner Lester Gibson Day," said Meek while reading a special proclamation to the crowd.
And for those who benefited from all he did, the message for others is to keep up his work for the underprivileged.
"Liberty and justice for all, liberty and justice for all. See what Lester has done, look -- look around," said Vernetta Stallings. "Don't give up."
With full state coffers and bipartisan support, Texas teachers are hopeful they'll get a raise this year


The Storage Equipment Manufacturer Association (SEMA) has launched a new group for distributor members, the SEMA Distributor Group (SDG).Members of the SDG will be known as SEMA Distributor Companies and are entitled to display the SDC logo on promotional materials and vehicles.
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SEMA Distributor Companies must commit to best practice in health & safety, and installations, the SEIRS training programme and the SDG member charter.
SDG members benefit from SEMA brand status and have a voice on SEMA Council, committees and working groups including SEIRS.
The SEMA Distributor Group has laid out rigorous criteria for membership. An SDC business must have been formally constituted as a legal company for at least two years. It must hold a main distributorship from a recognised manufacturer of storage equipment and an appropriate health and safety policy must be in place.
There is an undertaking to conform to SEMA Codes of Practice, standards and safety initiatives including SEIRS where the SDC also undertakes installation work.Where installation is carried out as part of the company's activities there must be at least one SEIRS Supervisor on board. Permanent Installation staff must hold full SEIRS ID Cards.
Critically, SDG members must conform to a random audit. A SEMAappointed auditor will study a recent completion and review all documentation including quotation, design, submission, installer details, methods and sign off.
SDCs may only use the SEMA Distributor Company logo in association with new, original equipment supplied. They must demonstrate DQAS Compliance (the SEMA Distributor Quality Assurance Scheme). Cost of annual membership for 2011/12 is £1400.
John Halliday, president of SEMA, said: "Today's announcement strengthens the relationship between well designed storage solutions from SEMA manufacturers and the SEMA distributor companies who supply and install them."


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